Physical AI Engineer - NeuraGym (Aachen) (Mensch)

The role

You will drive the development of cognitive robotics applications using Physical AI and the NeuraGym platform. You will implement the complete NeuraGym pipeline from teleoperation and data annotation to deployment and validation on real robots.

What you will do

• Drive the development of cognitive robotics applications with Physical AI and the NeuraGym platform
• Implement the complete NeuraGym pipeline from teleoperation and data annotation to training, simulation, deployment, and validation
• Bring policies from checkpoints into real-time closed-loop control
• Act as the central technical contact for customers introducing Physical AI
• Work directly on MAiRA, MiPA, LARA, and humanoid platforms
• Empower key persons at customer sites to train their colleagues
• Support users during onboarding to NeuraGym
• Act as a central interface between the Cloud and AI teams
• Build evaluation harnesses, success rate benchmarks, and regression tests
• Translate field experiences into feedback for the NeuraGym and NEURA Core-AI roadmaps

Required qualifications

• Master or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a comparable field
• Practical Machine Learning experience in robotics in at least one area: vision-based manipulation, Reinforcement/Imitation Learning, or multimodal models
• Demonstrable experience in fine-tuning large pre-trained models for robotics or another domain: PEFT/LoRA and Full Fine-Tunes, dataset curation, distillation, and evaluation
• Very good Python skills
• Practical experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow
• Demonstrable experience in technical roles with customer contact
• Sound understanding of robot hardware: actuators and joint modules, torque sensor technology and encoders, end effectors, sensor integration, calibration, electrical and fieldbus interfaces (e.g., Eth
• Problem-solving competence
• Ability to manage multiple projects in parallel
• Clear communication skills to translate between researchers, engineers, and end users
• Good English and German (level B2–C1)
• Willingness to travel frequently to customers and NeuraGyms (approx. 40–60 %)

Nice to have

• C++
• Knowledge in the open VLA and policy learning ecosystem (e.g., π0/π0.5, OpenVLA, LeRobot, Diffusion Policies)

About the company

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